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What's cf_hwassist_missedKeepAlive timeout and tolerant period?

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  • NetApp AFF and FAS systems
  • ONTAP 9

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cf_hwassist_missedKeepAlive incident is recorded in EMS after 60 seconds, after a hw-assist packet sent.

The hw-assist packets are sent by UDP every 180 seconds, so there is no retransmission of packets if the packets are sent and not received. If a UDP packet is dropped, blocked, wedged, redirected, etc.. and a node doesn't receive it, then the node will just wait for 180 seconds, until the next one is sent.

So if a cf_hwassist_recvKeepAlive event is showing within 120 seconds after cf_hwassist_missedKeepAlive, it can be ignored safely.

Sat Nov 04 22:07:44 +0900 [Nodename-02: cf_hwassist: cf.hwassist.missedKeepAlive:debug]: HW-assisted takeover missing keep-alive messages from HA partner (Nodename-01).
Sat Nov 04 22:09:14 +0900 [Nodename-02: cf_hwassist: cf.hwassist.recvKeepAlive:debug]: hw_assist: Received hw_assist KeepAlive alert from partner(Nodename-01).

Additional Information

  • For the cause of cf_hwassist_missedKeepAlive, because hw-assist configured and transmit with IP and port(default 4444) on e0M which goes through customer network environment, nearly every instance of this type of failure, is due to network dropped packets.
  • Check the hwassist-health-check-interval by command.

aff200-2n-dal-1::> storage failover show -fields hwassist,hwassist-partner-ip,hwassist-partner-port,hwassist-health-check-interval,hwassist-retry-count,hwassist-status
node          hwassist hwassist-partner-ip hwassist-partner-port hwassist-health-check-interval hwassist-retry-count hwassist-status
------------- -------- ------------------- --------------------- ------------------------------ -------------------- ---------------
aff200-dal-1a true     10.128.227.184      4444                  180                            2                    active
aff200-dal-1b true     10.128.227.183      4444                  180                            2                    active
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